Reported by Variety tonight, IT and IT: Chapter Two director Andy Muschietti, who also directed Mama, will be at the helm of Warner Bros’ Attack on Titan manga adaptation!
“Attack on Titan, written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, has become one of the best-selling manga series with over 76 million copies in print since debuting in 2009. It is set in a world in which humanity lives in cities surrounded by enormous walls protecting themselves from gigantic humanoids that are referred to as titans.”
To date, the Attack on Titan manga has been turned into an anime series as well as a Japanese live-action film, the latter split up into two parts.
David Heyman (“Harry Potter,” “Fantastic Beasts”) is producing the film with Masi Oka (“Mega Man”) and Andy’s sister Barbara Muschietti (“It” and “Mama”).
